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Sunday, December 14, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Open Hands
If our hands are tightly clenched, we cannot receive anything with them. In order to benefit from the OA program, we have to let go of whatever we are hanging on to, open ourselves to the program, and be willing to receive. We open our hands to the hands extended in fellowship by our new friends. We open our minds and hearts to new ideas, new truth, and new feelings.
We cannot receive the new way of life if we are closed and unwilling to change. Much of what we hear at meetings may sound strange in the beginning, but if we are receptive, it gradually makes sense. There is nothing about this program, which is impossible for any one of us. All that is required is the desire to stop eating compulsively and the willingness to learn how.
If we are having trouble with abstinence, it may be because we are hanging on to old ways and have closed our hands, refusing to take certain parts of the program. Our Higher Power extends to us the tools of recovery through the OA program. All we have to do is open our hands, firmly grasp these tools, and use them.
I open my hands to receive Your gifts.
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Love this, you can't be willing to receive if your hands are clenched in a fist or your arms are crossed over your chest, or your hands are folded in your lap.
We often wonder why people aren't open to us, when we put up that barrier that closes us off to others. Body language can speak volumes, to ourselves and to others, consciously or unconsciously.